Pyramid of Naqada - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Pyramid of Naqada - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The pyramid of Naqada, also called the pyramid of Ombos, is part of a group of seven very similar small step pyramids, which were all erected far from the major centres of Egypt and about which very little is known.The others are the pyramids at Edfu South, Elephantine, el-Kula, , , and Seila It is located about 300 metres north of the ruins of the ancient site of Ombos, near the modern city of Naqada in Upper Egypt. The first (and so far only) excavation was undertaken in 1895 by Flinders Petrie and James Edward Quibell.Petrie & Quibell: Naqada and Ballas. London 1896, p. 65, Pl. Ia, LXXXV Read more on Wikipedia
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